PHPUnit VS Next.js

PHPUnit is the de facto standard for PHP unit testing. It provides a framework for writing and running tests, helping developers quickly discover and fix errors. PHPUnit encourages developers to write testable code and adopt a test-driven development approach, resulting in higher-quality code and reduced chances of errors in production.

Before updating Api Platform, you should make sure that your Api Platform routes are fully covered by tests. You can define integration tests with PHPUnit, Behat or Pest, depending on the tool you’re most comfortable with.

PHP popular tools for testing: PHPUnit

PHPUnit: PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. Extensions/tools: brianium/paratest: Parallel testing for PHPUnit johnkary/phpunit-speedtrap: Reports on slow-running tests in your PHPUnit test suite. robiningelbrecht/phpunit-pretty-print: Better PHPUnit CLI output with Collision roave/no-leaks: PHPUnit Plugin for detecting Memory Leaks in code and tests

We want to start migrating to Attributes because of the announcement made here that in PHPUnit 12 support for metadata in docblocks will be removed: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/4502

PHPUnit: PHPUnit PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. It enables developers to write unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests to verify the correctness of their code. It offers a wide range of assertions, test runners, and mocking capabilities. Documentation: Explore PHPUnit's capabilities and learn how to write effective tests in the official documentation: PHPUnit Repository

I really like how Pest PHP formats and outputs test results, but I still prefer to use PHPUnit. Luckily there's Collision. This package is designed to give you beautiful error reporting when interacting with your app through the command line.

Finally we install the command line version of php (no web server is needed for this project), composer which is a package management system for PHP and PHP Unit, the testing framework of PHP.

I've been developing my own symfony bundle and I would like to share with you how I'm driving continuos integration to execute my unit tests. For testing purposes I'm using phpunit and for continous integration i've choosen github actions.

PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for PHP included with Laravel and can be used to test your application's code. It provides a set of assertions and functions for testing your code and can be used to run automated tests.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/27666 One of them said 'renaming folder to uppercase' might cause trouble. git might not recognize case-sensetive changes by default.

Next.js has long cemented itself as one of the front runners in the web framework world for JavaScript/TypeScript projects so we’re going to be using that. More specifically we’re going to be using V14 of Next.js which allows us to use some exciting new features like Server Actions and the App Router.

Web frameworks like Next.js will usually include this feature, but do check that they set the caching headers correctly!

Vite and Next.js are both top 5 modern development framework right now. They are both great depending on your use case so we’ll discuss 4 areas: Architecture, main features, developer experience and production readiness. After learning about these we’ll have a better idea of which one is best for your project.

> It’s important to be aware of what you are getting if you go with React, and what you are getting is a far cry from what a framework would offer, with all the corresponding pros and cons.

Would you like to elaborate on that?

In my experience, with something as great, size/ecosystem-wise as React, there will almost always be at least one "mainstream" package for whatever you might want to do with it, that integrates pretty well. Where a lot of things might come out of the box with a framework, with a library I often find myself just needing to install the "right" package, and from there it's pretty much the same.

For example, using https://angular.io/guide/i18n-overview or installing and using https://react.i18next.com/

Or something like https://angular.io/guide/form-validation out of the box, vs installing and using https://formik.org/

Or perhaps https://angular.io/guide/router vs https://reactrouter.com/en/main

Even adding something that's not there out of the box is pretty much the same, like https://primeng.org/ or https://primereact.org/

React will typically have more fragmentation and therefore also choice, but I don't see those two experiences as that different. Updates and version management/supply chain will inevitably be more of a mess with the library, admittedly.

Now, projects like Next https://nextjs.org/ exist and add what some might regard as the missing pieces and work well if you want something opinionated and with lots of features out of the box, but a lot of those features (like SSR) are actually pretty advanced and not always even necessary.

Next.js: For the website and the admin dashboard

Until the time of writing, there is no official example of how to enable runtime environmental variables in a Dockerized Next.js app, as utilizing unstable_noStore would only dynamically evaluate variables on the server (node.js runtime). There is also an interesting discussion regarding this topic on GitHub.

next.js is a very popular React framework. remix-adonisjs includes more functionality through the AdonisJS backend ecosystem, and should be easier to self-host and self-manage.

Cheryl Murphy is not only a dedicated full-stack web developer skilled in technologies like React, Next.js, and NestJs but also a community-driven professional who recently took on the role of volunteer project team lead at Web Dev Path. With a dual Bachelor's degree in Computing and Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Cheryl’s journey in tech is marked by a passion for building accessible solutions and a commitment to fostering community within tech.

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